NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2014-07-28

 From NPR news, in Washington, I am Jeanine Herbst.

Israel Security Cabinet has approved a 24-hour extension of the 12-hour humanitarian¹ cease-fire today. This new one will last until midnight, Sunday, local time. 

In a statement a Hamas spokesman says that any humanitarian cease-fire that doesn't include a withdraw of Israeli soldiers from inside Gaza is unacceptable. Israel Security Cabinet made the decision of the request of the UN and the Cabinet meets tomorrow to discuss a sustained cease-fire.

Meanwhile in Gaza, health official says that the Palestinian death toll² now stands at 1047, and 40 Israeli soldiers and 3 civilians³ have been killed.

 

And in Paris today, thousands of marchers defied an order by France officials banning rallies against Israel's offensive in the Gaza strip. Officials warn protester they face prosecution⁴ for ignoring the ban. After about two hours, the protesters left and police say they made around 50 arrests.

 

The Deputy Director of the National Security Agency says a number of US intelligence agencies are working together to figure out who was behind the downing of Malaysian Airlines' Flight 17. As NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports, he provided a blueprint⁵ for how these investigations⁶ are wrong.

NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett told the audience at the Aspan Security Forum⁷ that when there's an event like that of the downing of the Flight 17, the NSA begins looking for communications and some sort of clue left from weapon systems, then working with a national geo-spacial intelligence agency and a defense⁸ intelligence agency, they add images and human intelligence to the effort. Ledgett said the results then go to the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence for an assessment⁹. Typically, signal intelligence is secret, but in the case of Flight 17, the decision was made to make some of it public. Dina Temple-Raston, at NPR news, Aspan, Colorado.

 

Dutch officials in Eastern Ukraine are still working in a recovery mode even though all of the bodies from Dutch victims from the Malaysian Airlines' crash arrived back in the Netherlands. The BBC's Tome Barriage has more from Ukraine.

There are forty unarmed Dutch military police officers currently in the city of Kharkiv, but hundreds more police and personnel from the Netherlands and other countries are expected to arrive here over the coming days. For now this international operation is only making preparations for the next phase of their nation. And they will not move in large numbers to the crash site in rebel-controlled territory for several days. First they will need approval of the Ukraine's Parliament, which they say will vote on the matter on Thursday. If they get the green light, Dutch police say they will then focus only on recovering any other remains¹⁰ or belongings¹¹ of the victims on board Flight MH17. The BBC's Tom Barriage.

 

President Obama is blasting companies who use a loophole to dodge¹² US taxes by moving their headquarters overseas. Seeing it unpatriotic, in his weekly address, he says those companies are essentially¹³ renouncing¹⁴ citizenship¹⁵. 

 

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Cellphone users may soon be able to unlock their phones when switching service providers. That means you can change your provider, but you won't have to buy a new phone. The bill passed by Congress and is now on the way to, for the President's desk. It reverses a 2012 library of congress ruling, making it a copyright violation¹⁶ to unlock a phone without permission. But the Library does plan to revisit the law next year.

 

Lawyers will argue that constitutionality of gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana next month. As Marti Mikkelson reports from member station WUWM, a Federal Appeals Court set a date Friday. The seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals announced it has rescheduled oral arguments for both states' appeals for August 26. Federal judges in Wisconsin and Indiana overturned each state's gay marriage ban in separate rulings. When both states appealed, the court combined the cases. The 7th Circuit also denied requests that the states' appeals be heard before the four 10-member court instead of a 3-judge panel as its customary. Hundreds of same sex couples were married in Wisconsin and Indiana after the bans were overturned and before stays were issued. For NPR news, I am Marti Mikkelson, in Milwaukee.

 

In Chicago fast food workers from across the country met in their first convention this weekend. They are calling for more civil disobedience to escalate¹⁷ their push for higher minimum wages and union representation. They are looking for 15 dollars an hour. Already they have staged one-day strikes and they protested outside this year's McDonald's shareholder's meeting. But industry officials say a $15 wage would hurt job creation.

 

1 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

2 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

3 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

4 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

5 blueprint   

n.蓝图，设计图，计划；vt.制成蓝图，计划

参考例句：

• All the machine parts on a blueprint must answer each other.设计图上所有的机器部件都应互相配合。
• The documents contain a blueprint for a nuclear device.文件内附有一张核装置的设计蓝图。

6 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

7 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

8 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

9 assessment   

n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？

10 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

11 belongings   

n.私人物品，私人财物

参考例句：

• I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
• Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。

12 dodge   

v.闪开，躲开，避开；n.妙计，诡计

参考例句：

• A dodge behind a tree kept her from being run over.她向树后一闪，才没被车从身上辗过。
• The dodge was coopered by the police.诡计被警察粉碎了。

13 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

14 renouncing   

v.声明放弃( renounce的现在分词 )；宣布放弃；宣布与…决裂；宣布摒弃

参考例句：

• He enraged the government by renouncing the agreement. 他否认那项协议，从而激怒了政府。 来自辞典例句
• What do you get for renouncing Taiwan and embracing Beijing instead? 抛弃台湾，并转而拥抱北京之后，你会得到什么？ 来自互联网

15 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。

16 violation   

n.违反(行为)，违背(行为)，侵犯

参考例句：

• He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说，那是违反规则的。
• He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。

17 escalate   

v.(使)逐步增长(或发展)，(使)逐步升级

参考例句：

• It would tempt Israel's neighbors to escalate their demands.它将诱使以色列的邻国不断把他们的要求升级。
• Defeat could cause one side or other to escalate the conflict.失败可能会导致其中一方将冲突升级。